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Session C: PSYCHOLOGY OF LIBRARY SPACE
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The message/tone that the library sends out to our patrons
Hierarchal or egalitarian message?
Discouraging/intimidating signage
Encouraging signage
Flexibility
Shelves on wheels - but do you move the wheels? How do we make use of the flexible
Bad Swedish library example: chained chairs
Demountable walls, movable walls
Canada: Need to design 3 years before
Changing collections >>> change architecture?
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
Problem with digital collections: invisible - How to visualize digital content and services?
Cloud
Discovery? How to mimic the experience?
Lisa:
How to design wthout signage?
Imagery? Literal signage -
Visual design inspired by the metro map - a user journey - "the relevant stops"
Colours
Sound
Rasmus:
Interactive signage actvated when entering
Design for self-organization: let he users mould the librat space
It's difficula to design FOR users, better TOGETHER with users?
Belgium: everything arranged towards the light side of the library, high bench w high chairs, movable chairs.
The phases we've gone through during the last 20 years in libraries:
1. Digitization of libraries
2. Librarization of the digital world
3. De-digitization of the library
4. Internet of Things
Mobile devices
The smartphone
The behaviour
Bibliocommons